Day-by-day Download data Airport totals Weekly chart The rules (TSA) Passengers caught trying to carry handguns past security at O’Hare and Panama City airports on Dec. 21 pushed the total number of gun confiscations by Transportation Security Administration screeners past … Continue reading
Map shows total guns confiscated by the Transportation Safety Administration from January through June, 2012, by airport. Guns are not allowed past airport security and must be sent as checked baggage. Data includes how many guns were loaded and how … Continue reading
Just under 700 guns were discovered at U.S. airport carryon baggage checkpoints in the first half of 2012 — and 1 in 4 of them had a bullet loaded in the firing chamber, a Medill analysis of federal data found. … Continue reading
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→ Continue to the story.EVANSTON, Ill. — The Robert R. McCormick Foundation has renewed a $1 million grant to fund the Medill National Security Journalism Initiative at Northwestern University over the next two years.
The NSJ program provides journalists-in-training and working journalists with the knowledge and skills necessary to report accurately, completely and with context on events and issues related to defense, security and civil liberties. The initiative began in January, 2009 with an initial three-year, $1.3 million McCormick Foundation grant. The grant was also renewed for $1 million over two years in 2011.
